Literary usage of Ragamuffins

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1885)"They put no trust in the protection of " a handful of ragamuffins." They well
knew when danger came they themselves must face it. ..."

2.The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)"THE PACK OF ragamuffins THE cock once said to the hen, " It is now the time when
the nuts are ripe, so let us go to the hill together and for once eat our ..."

3.The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)"... Arithmetic—Political Letters—The Election Law in Congress—The state of things
in Pennsylvania it was intended for—John Randolph denounces "ragamuffins" ..."

4.English Prose (1137-1890) by John Matthews Manly (1909)"... yet share the money when you meet at supper: notwithstanding, to gull the
ragamuffins that stand aloof gaping at you, throw the cards (having first torn ..."

5.The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York by William Carr (1828)"Why dost thou let such ragamuffins Thus rudely make our ships our coffins." Mar.
5. P.Plou. RAIN, A ridge. ..."